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The EnDurCrete project

New Environmental friendly and Durable conCrete, integrating industrial by-products and hybrid
systems, for civil, industrial and offshore applications

MAIN GOAL
By integrating industrial by-products and hybrid systems,
EnDurCrete will develop a new environmentally-friendly
and durable concrete for harsh environmental
applications using new types of eco-friendly Portland
composite cements.

Concrete based on ordinary Portland cement has been Project demo sites where technology applications
for many years the principal structural material for will be tested
building durable construction. Current state-of-the-art
concrete types based on Portland cement with very high models. Furthermore, the knowledge and experience
substitution by supplementary cementitious materials gathered by the project is supporting the preparation of
tend to fall behind in terms of performance and durability, novel standards for more eco-friendly cements
which is particularly critical when applied in harsh and concretes.
environmental conditions. Moreover, cement production
process is responisbile itself of almost ten percent of the Following the concrete development stage, full-scale
worlds’s man made CO2 emission. Therefore, projects demonstrators will be cast and placed in working sites of
aimed at improving formulations and production methods tunnels, ports, bridges and offshore structures, to prove
to reduce CO2 emissions, energy demand and material the enhanced durability and the improved long-term cost
consumption from cement and concrete manufacturing efficiency of the new concrete structures in such critical
represent key topics on the agenda of both the European applications. However, EnDurCrete is not only about
construction industry and the European Commission. One developing concrete but also about pushing forward test
of such projects is the EnDurCrete project sponsored by methods and analysis tools. Advanced non-destructive
the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 continuous monitoring and testing tools and procedures
and led by HeidelbergCement AG. will be developed and used, including technologies tuned
for providing concrete with self-sensing capabilities. They
The EnDurCrete project aims to develop a new cost- are intended to complement the conventional durability
efficient, sustainable reinforced concrete for long-lasting testing procedures in laboratories. l
and added-value applications. The concept is based on
the integration of novel and optimised low-clinker cement, Project ID: 760639
new nano- and micro-technologies and hybrid systems Website: www.endurcrete.eu
ensuring enhanced durability of concrete structures Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfgom15vUsg
with high mechanical properties, self-healing and self- Start date: January 2018
monitoring capacities. Duration: 42 months
Project coordinator: Arnaud Muller
The EnDurCrete project involves 16 European partners, Contact email: arnaud.muller@heidelbergcement.com
including industry leaders in the fields of cement and
concrete production, construction companies, chemical
admixture producers, universities and technological
research institutes as well as service providers. The
research faces several topics, from the development of
new ecological low-clinker cements, innovative corrosion
inhibitors, conductive fillers/fibers enhancing self-sensing
capabilities of concrete, special reinforcement and self-
healing solutions to the testing of durability in laboratory
and on large-scale demonstrations in real environment
conditions. Data collected during the testing will be
further used as an input for the modelling of concrete
performance and development of service life prediction

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